Fruitland Park Students Get Fire-safety Training

Fruitland Park Elementary School is one of two Florida schools chosen by the state Bureau of Fire Standards and Training for a yearlong pilot program on fire safety.

The bureau, commonly referred to as the Florida State Fire College, trained Fruitland Park teachers last week on presenting safety information and provided materials for the ''Learn Not to Burn'' program.

''We had heard Fruitland Park was a very progressive school,'' Ellie Sorel, curriculum coordinator for the fire college, said of Fruitland Park's selection.

Marion County's Magnet School in Ocala also will participate in the program, with workshops to be presented there Oct. 18. The fire college is in Ocala.

Once teachers are trained, they decorate bulletin boards with fire safety information, incorporate fire safety books and other materials in their classroom instruction, and give homework assignments that include those lessons.

Instruction is geared to all grade levels.

Shirley Johnston, the principal of Fruitland Park, gives the program a rave review.

''It's a great program,'' she said. ''They have spent thousands of dollars on it.''

Sorel said the fire college plans to conduct two such workshops throughout the state each year.

SCHOLARSHIP

SARAH SUE Smith of Dade City has been selected as the 1985 recipient of the Otto Wettstein Junior Telephone Pioneer Club Scholarship.

Smith, 21, will use the $1,000 scholarship to continue her studies in graphic design and advertising at the University of Florida, where she is a junior.

She is a 1982 graduate of Pasco High School, where she was named the most outstanding art student, and is a 1984 graduate of St. Leo College. She graduated from that school magna cum laude. Both schools are in Dade City.

Smith is the daughter of Robert Smith, a United Telephone Co. carrier radio technician in Dade City. Operations there are supervised by United Telephone offices in Leesburg.

She has worked as a writer and photographer for Dade City area newspapers as well as photo editor for the Monarch, the St. Leo College publication. She is employed as an arts production assistant at WUFT, the university's radio and television station.

PARENTS NIGHT

TAVARES HIGH School will hold its annual ''Parents Back-to-School Night'' at 7 p.m. Monday in the school auditorium. Parents will tour classrooms and meet the teachers. Refreshments will be served by the School Advisory Committee. Members of the Student Council and National Honor Society will serve as guides.